About affirmative actions... The Boys Project

http://boysproject.net/statistics.html

What do you think? Scary, ain't it?

Here is what I think...

I forsee a couple avenues:

1. This trend might underline a societal shift with a change of the gender power balance and some sacrified male generations.
Utilitarian speaking if at the end of the shift we end up with a better society may be all this is worth it.

Possible problems:
The female population starts to be too overstressed and it will not resist the change.

Family vs Career is a false dichotomy and the female population will soon become as alienated as the male one. In this situation, there is a risk to end up with an uncompetitive society.

2. This trend might underline a re-balancing of the gender power by means of affirmative actions (positive discrimination).

Possible problems:
The affirmative action is discriminating and if misunderstood a very soft and sweet form of revenge.
What does it mean?
In this context affirmative action means:

a. the female gender is intentionally helped to get at some undeserving levels
and/or
b. the male gender is intentionally kept down so it won't get to a deserving level
(hehe, i bet you never seen it put this way...)

Here again we face the same problem: an unfit and uncompetitive society.

Another problem:
With the present statistics we face another problem. We have unbalanced again the society, in the detriment of the male gender. Affirmative action is a painful iterative process.

This happens to me almost every time I try to grow a beard... :) ... I shave one side too much and then I try to catch up by shaving a bit more on the other side. Needless to say that 15 minutes later I end up completely shaved.
Sure, you might say, if I am such a bad barber I might need a professional... or just let the beard grow wild... And I would agree...

This is exactly the problem with missed affirmative action: it is unprofessional :).

I let you guess why we need a competitive society.

and those were my 2 cents... grrrrrrrrr... ;)
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Octavian Mihai